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Nationals Drags, the Best Ever
OvalGlen - April 15th, 2004 at 10:46 PM

This years Sydney Nationals Drags was the best ever.!
I got to enjoy the Spectators Veiw.! and it was the Best
Action, Not only did we Have Great VW Drag cars from NSW
and top Street VW's , we also got
- Interstate Stars, Like Adam from S.A. and Volkomenn Art from VIC.
- Hard Running V8 's like the Black Camaro doing 8.2 sec and 8.1 in the 160 MPH + the yellow Camaro and Red Striped Capri, similar.
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I'll post more later but some stand outs were.
Rod Penrose 9.29 sec ,139.8 mph.
Mike Kristen 10.36 sec, 129.88 mph.
LMS 10.7 sec, 128.6 mph.
Vintage 11.9 sec 119.3 mph.
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HotRodMatt - April 15th, 2004 at 11:19 PM

Yes Glenn it was a great one.

Hat's off and many thanks to Club VW for organising it.

It is a big commercial risk taking a track hire and it was very disappointing to see so few VW spectators! If you want it every year you have to support it!

66fastback - April 16th, 2004 at 08:36 AM

Don't forget David O'C from SA in his clean street registered fuel injected beetle "Kafer".

A PB of 12.6 not sure of the Mph. An awsome time from a full weight, street car that is NA.

The use of drag slicks stopped him from competing in the Gene Berg catagory.

Does anyone have a list of cars and best times/speeds for the event? People are posting some individual times, but a haven't seen any full results.

jakriz - April 16th, 2004 at 06:19 PM

couple of pics, not very exciting though.
regards
Jak

jakriz - April 16th, 2004 at 06:20 PM

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jakriz - April 16th, 2004 at 06:21 PM

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jakriz - April 16th, 2004 at 06:23 PM

& proper drag car, not one of these silly track racers.......

pete wood - April 16th, 2004 at 06:28 PM

anyone get a pic of those 2 awesome wheel stands he did?:thumb

jakriz - April 16th, 2004 at 06:28 PM

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vw54 - April 16th, 2004 at 08:55 PM

Hey so what happened to the PICs of the Orange Smoothieeeeeer on the start line.

Hey Glenn why whernt U on the start line in yr car ????

HotRodMatt - April 16th, 2004 at 10:54 PM

I got a few of the smoothie Dave and a good series of the big wheelstand - thank god for motor drives on cameras

pete wood - April 16th, 2004 at 11:18 PM

I agree that it was the best drags I've been to for the nats. Club vw did a great job organising it and the quality of cars, vw and other, was awesome. My three favs had to be Rod Penrose' beetle, the cal look car with the meg and 48IDA plates from QLD and that wicked toyota wagon with the small block or somthing in it. It wheel standed for the nearly the whole of it's first gear.
well wicked:)

XXX-1.8T - April 18th, 2004 at 01:09 PM

awesome day had a blast it was like having my own dragstrip for the day - awesome!!!!

LOWBUG - April 18th, 2004 at 02:51 PM

It was fully siiick

fullnoise - April 19th, 2004 at 08:13 AM

I thought I had a nice still shot of the Orange Smoothee on the drag strip but it turned out to be a video.

LOL CT

Astro Boy - April 19th, 2004 at 08:21 AM

great to see some kombis out there. id struggle to go under 30 seconds and get over 100km/h.

wacked1 - April 19th, 2004 at 09:21 AM

yeah right, go the kombi's

OvalGlen - April 23rd, 2004 at 09:54 PM

vw54, my Oval not going too good at present.
1. I dont think it would have passed scrutineering if they looked under the engine due to oil leak.
2. one gear missing, but good news - the Gearbox is being built for it.

HotRodMatt - May 3rd, 2004 at 07:28 AM

Heaps of thumbnails of my pics from the day

http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=22390